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						<h2>About SpeechBrain</h2>
						<h3>A community toolkit</h3>

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        			<p> <img src="img/logo_discourse.png"/> Join our official <a href="https://speechbrain.discourse.group">Discourse</a> to discuss with SpeechBrain users coming from all around the world! <img src="img/logo_discourse.png"/></p>
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              <h2>Community driven</h2>
              <p class="justified large">SpeechBrain has been designed to help researchers and developers.
                The future of SpeechBrain highly depends on this community engagement.
                Anyone can clone the code, develop new functionalities, raise issues, or create a new discussion.
                With SpeechBrain we hope to start a symbiotic relationship between the toolkit and the research community. </p>
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              <h2>Contributing to SpeechBrain</h2>
              <p class="justified large"> Contributions can take various forms (see our <a href="contributing.html">dedicated page</a>):<br/>
                  1. Researchers can propose and implement new functionalities through pull requests. To ensure high-quality standards, each new pull request will be reviewed by a core team member.<br/>
                  2. Sponsors can contribute financially or with human resources by contacting us via <a href="mailto:speechbrainproject@gmail.com"> email. </a><br/><br/>
                  <b>SpeechBrain needs you in order to evolve!</b>
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              <h2>Referencing SpeechBrain</h2>
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  @misc{SB2021,
    author = {Ravanelli, Mirco and Parcollet, Titouan and Rouhe, Aku and Plantinga, Peter and Rastorgueva, Elena and Lugosch, Loren and Dawalatabad, Nauman and Ju-Chieh, Chou and Heba, Abdel and Grondin, Francois and Aris, William and Liao, Chien-Feng and Cornell, Samuele and Yeh, Sung-Lin and Na, Hwidong and Gao, Yan and Fu, Szu-Wei and Subakan, Cem and De Mori, Renato and Bengio, Yoshua },
    title = {SpeechBrain},
    year = {2021},
    publisher = {GitHub},
    journal = {GitHub repository},
    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain}},
  }
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              <h2>License</h2>
              <p class="justified large">SpeechBrain is released under the <a href="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache license, version 2.0</a>. The Apache license is a popular <em>BSD-like</em> license. SpeechBrain can be redistributed for free, even for commercial purposes, although you can not take off the license headers (and under some circumstances you may have to distribute a license document). Apache is not a <em>viral</em> license like the GPL, which forces you to release your modifications to the source code. Also note that this project has no connection to the Apache Foundation, other than that we use the same license terms.</p><br/>

              <p class="justified large">From a legal and copyright point of view, SpeechBrain has been created by Dr. Mirco Ravanelli and Dr. Titouan Parcollet. There is no legal institution associated as an <em> owner </em> of SpeechBrain.</p>
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              <h2>Sponsors</h2>
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                 Sponsoring allows us to further expand the SpeechBrain team highly increasing the number of new features coming out. It also helps to ensure high quality standards by being able to properly manage the various issues and pull requests coming from the community.
                 If interested do not hesitate to contact us via <a href="mailto:speechbrainproject@gmail.com"> e-mail </a>.
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              <h2>Partners</h2>
              <p class="justified large"> Partners are organizations that dedicate important human (or hardware resources) to the SpeechBrain project.
                They are involved in the decision process by participating in meetings. </p>
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              <h2>Contributors</h2>
              <p class="justified large"> In this section we thanks all the peoples that contributed to SpeechBrain. </p>
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              <li>Mirco Ravanelli, Mila, Montréal (CA)</li>
              <li>Titouan Parcollet, Avignon Université (LIA, FR)</li>
              <li>Aku Rouhe, Aalto University (FI)</li>
              <li>Peter Plantinga, Ohio State University (USA)</li>
              <li>Elena Rastorgueva</li>
              <li>Loren Lugosch, Mila, McGill University (CA)</li>
              <li>Nauman Dawalatabad, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN)</li>
              <li>Ju-Chieh Chou, National Taiwan University (TW)</li>
              <li>Abdel Heba, University of Toulouse (IRIT, FR)</li>
              <li>Francois Grondin, University of Sherbrooke (CA)</li>
              <li>William Aris, University of Sherbrooke (CA)</li>
              <li>Chien-Feng Liao, National Taiwan University (TW)</li>
              <li>Samuele Cornell, Università Politecnica delle Marche (IT)</li>
              <li>Sung-Lin Yeh, National Tsing Hua University (TW)</li>
              <li>Hwidong Na, Visiting Researcher Samsung SAIL (CA)</li>
              <li>Yan Gao, University of Cambridge (UK)</li>
              <li>Szu-Wei Fu, Academia Sinica (TW)</li>
              <li>Cem Subakan, Mila, University of Montréal (CA)</li>
              <li>Jianyuan Zhong, University of Rochester (USA)<li>
              <li>Brecht Desplanques, Ghent University (BE)<li>
              <li>Jenthe Thienpondt, Ghent University (BE)<li>
	      <li>Salima Mdhaffar, Avignon Université (LIA, FR)<li>
              <li>Renato De Mori, University of McGill (CA), Avignon University (LIA, FR)</li>
              <li>Yoshua Bengio, Mila, University of Montréal (CA)</li>
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